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Negotiating Mughal law : a family of landlords across three Indian empires / Nandini Chatterjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chatterjee, Nandini, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Mogul Empire--History.
- Law.
- Law--India--History--19th century.
- Law--India--History--20th century.
- Landlord and tenant--India--Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)--History.
- Landlord and tenant.
- History.
- India--Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan).
- Law--India--Islamic influences.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily interactions with imperial elites as well as villagers and marauders, Chatterjee offers a new history from below of the Mughal Empire, far from the glittering courts of the emperors and nobles, but still dramatic and filled with colourful personalities. From this perspective, we see war, violence, betrayal, enterprise, romance and disappointment, but we also see a quest for law, justice, rights and righteousness. A rare story of Islamic law in a predominantly non-Muslim society, this is also an exploration of the peripheral regions of the Maratha empire and a neglected princely state under British colonial rule. This title is also available as Open Access.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Malwa : Land of many empires
- Zamindars : Lords of the marches
- Contractors : Engaging the state
- Transactions : Recording deals
- Disputes : Judges and courts
- Invaders : Marathas and the British
- Identity : Professionals or Warlords?
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Apr 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108623391
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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